Abū l-Ṭamaḥān al-Qaynī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Hussein, Ali Ahmad
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Abū l-Ṭamaḥān al-Qaynī (d. c. 11/632 or 30/650-1) was a mukhaḍram poet-one whose life bridged the period from the Jāhiliyya into the early years of Islam-of al-Qayn b. Jasr of the Quḍāʿa tribe, whose name was Ḥanẓala b. al-Sharqī (or Sharqī), or, according to other sources, Rabīʿa b. ʿAwf. His tribe lived in several places, including the outlying areas of al-Shām; al-Marāʿī, southeast of al-Shām; and Thajr, which is between Wādī l-Qurā and Taymāʾ, in northwestern Arabia.